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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:25 PM Original message |
on the death of Paul Tibbets |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
1. Tibbets was a pilot flying a mission |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Precisely. Thanks for posting. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:39 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. Thank you |
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Adsos Letter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well said, o fair Ulysses... |
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RubyDuby in GA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
4. How dare you use reason and intellect against us! |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. :) |
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Oddball (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
5. true |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
6. I posted this earlier . I met him briefly and he was a nice man. |
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Oddball (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. also true |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. mixed feelings here. Not an easy subject. |
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Oddball (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:42 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. yes, I know a person.. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:59 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Uncle came home from there and moved out into seclusion. He may have been |
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Oddball (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:05 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. okay, I missed the point |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:12 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Welcome to DU, have another. |
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ChazII (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:41 PM Response to Reply #6 |
34. Thank you for displaying common sense. n/t |
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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
7. there are people here who |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
8. 400K or over in one night. |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:44 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. ? |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:35 PM Response to Reply #15 |
33. Sorties. |
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Rick Myers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
11. Paul Tibbits did not build the bomb, nor did he pick the target. |
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Horseradish (98 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. I do not condemn Paul Tibbets |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:24 PM Response to Reply #23 |
31. Well, he didn't push the button |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:02 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. As Tibbets said in an interview, it's war itself that's insane. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-02-07 12:00 AM Response to Reply #25 |
37. He said that? |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-02-07 03:55 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. In the NPR story :: |
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slowry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
16. He always just seemed... cold. |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:51 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Those aren't the words of a cold man |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:52 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. didn't say he was a paragon of virtue. |
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Oddball (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:53 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. WOW. Studs could cut through.. |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
20. Why not reserve some vitriol for Maj. Thomas Ferebee, |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:59 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. bingo! |
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Oddball (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:03 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. I tried to send 'Mankind" a letter once... |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:19 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. You may choose whom you wish to hold accountable |
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:57 PM Response to Reply #20 |
36. Why stop there? Let's hold the captain and crew of the USS Indianapolis in contempt as well |
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razzleberry (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
24. he knew not, what he was doing (at the time) |
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qdemn7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
26. My firm opinion |
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Spinzonner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
32. It was an aBOMBination |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
35. Regardless, this wasn't his decision to make |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-02-07 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
38. link to NPR story -- >> |
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Olney Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-02-07 06:33 AM Response to Original message |
39. He was the messenger delivering the message. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-02-07 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
41. Can't agree after what happened at that airshow in '75. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-02-07 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
42. Killing civilians is a war crime..no matter who does it. |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-02-07 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
43. War is all hell - William Tecumseh Sherman |
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